 | | Re: Number one request for LEGO —Jasper Janssen
| | | | (...) Molds wear out. It may be 10.000 to 100.000 or even a million copies of a brick, but they do wear out. And once they're worn (which I suspect is earlier in TLG than with other mfg companies), they're not useful, and in fact, are nothing but a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Number one request for LEGO —Ray Sanders
| | | | | (...) And one would suspect that the worn out molds are in direct proportion to the quantity of a particular part produced. I.e., most (but not all) of the worn out molds are for basic bricks, not as many for special parts. Ray (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Number one request for LEGO —Jasper Janssen
| | | | | (...) Not necessarily. I suspect they make the basic brick molds to last much longer than special piece molds. Simply a matter of cost-effectiveness of titanium-alloy diamond-coated molds ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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